Tag Archives: contention sets

Tue 24th March 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Ping and .Srl domain names to be staid Wednesday - Two top level domain names head to the auction block on Wednesday. Auctions to settle contention sets for the .Ping and .SRL top level domain names will take place on Wednesday. The so-called “Auctions of Last Resort” will take place because one of the applicants didn’t want to settle the set in a private auction. Google and mySRL GmbH will square off for .SRL. SRL is similar to Limited Liability Company and is appended to the end of many company names. PING (the golf company) and Radix will ... read more ...
Fri 30th May 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
First ICANN “Auction of Last Resort” to take place subsequent week - First of many planned new top level domain name auctions to take place next week. It’s a last resort, and it kicks of next week. ICANN will hold its first new top level domain name auction next week to settle the contention set for .信息, which roughly translates to “information”. Afilias, the registry behind .info, will bid against Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co., Ltd. for the name. At least seven auctions were originally scheduled to take place ... read more ...